McDonald Bank
| McDonald Bank | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Geographical location | 75 ° 30 ′ S , 26 ° 35 ′ W | |
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The McDonald Bank ( English ) is a submarine bank in the middle of the West Antarctic Weddell Sea . Berkner Island and the Henry Ice Rise are based on it .
It is named at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute based on the naming of the McDonald Ice Rumples in the Brunt Ice Shelf . Which is named after Allan McDonald of the British Association of Magallanes in Chile's Punta Arenas , the July 1916 money for the equipment of the ship Emma for this unsuccessful rescue on Elephant Iceland stranded participants of the Endurance Expedition (1914-1917) under the direction of British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton had made available. The designation was confirmed in June 1997 by the US Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF).
Web links
- McDonald Bank in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McDonald Bank on geographic.org (English)
- McDonald Bank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)